AND THEY HAVE ESCAPED.
MOTION
SENSORS.
PROJECTIONS.
APP
DEVELOPMENT.
IS BEING CONSTANTLY ‘ONLINE’ A GOOD THING?
In a self guided experience, free to the public, we asked our audience to consider if always being online means missing out on their real lives?
Fusing a museum collection with contemporary dance, motion sensors, projection mapping and a custom made mobile phone app they could interact with three very different provocations.
ENJOY ONE OF THE FILMS.
View a video taken from ‘The cabinet of lost experiences’
INNOVATIVE FEATURES.
APP DEVELOPMENT.
PROJECTION.
GAMING.
DANCE FOR CAMERA.
A BLEND OF DANCE, TECHNOLOGY AND HERITAGE.
Avatars, trapped inside our mobile devices, demand their freedom. They invade our three-dimensional world for the first time carrying an urgent cautionary message about real life.
This is the futuristic vision for ‘And They Have Escaped’, an immersive installation dance work consisting of three interactive experiences:
THE CABINET OF LOST EXPERIENCES
THE LONG WALK
LOOK UP
This reminds us of the simple pleasures found in face-to-face interaction and being physically present in our environment.
John Darvell’s creative concepts and thought provoking choreography are brought to life by the technical wizardry of Greyworld, a company with over 20 years experience of creating works that articulate public spaces. Combined with Rogerio Silva’s magical cinematography, John Chambers haunting sound score and the joyful animations by Yeast Culture.
Co-commissioned by West Berkshire Council and West Berkshire Heritage and supported by Arts Council England, Corn Exchange, Newbury.
THE CABINET OF
LOST EXPERIENCES.
A shattered cabinet and its contents are strewn destructively around the museum. Hidden iBeacons sense your location and push video content to the custom made app on your mobile device.
As you wander, there are more and more objects which show how we are losing touch with normal day-to-day experiences due to our obsessive phone consumption. Each one also rewards you with a piece of our dance story, concluding only once all of them are discovered.
THE
LONG WALK.
In a solo experience you are only given one simple task - just walk! But don’t stop. And definitely don’t pick up the phone beside you. Surrounded by beautiful plants and walking on soft grass you slowly start.
Your reward is to see our characters dance in a beautiful woodland. However, it’s not long before you start hearing those pesky alerts and soon they are coming quick and fast. Pick up the phone or stop moving and the characters whizz right back to the start of their journey in the woods and all your hard work will be for nothing.
LOOK
UP.
Whilst glued to our mobile devices’ screens, social media ‘likes’ are our modern-day techno rewards. In this dance experience for anyone, we turn this concept ‘upside down’.
Just start to move about in the allotted space and our motion-sensing projections soon reward you.
Keep dancing different moves to get more ‘likes’ and see the space around you change from a drab grey world to one of a kaleidoscopic colourful animation.
However, there’s a catch! To enjoy the beautiful new world you’ve created, you must, Look Up!
AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.
ARTISTIC AGENCY TO OUR COMMUNITY.
Intrinsic to our creative process is co-creation with adults and young people, giving artistic agency to the whole community.
This bold project collaborated with a wide range of adult dancers, professional artists, community groups and young people.
400
CREATIVELY ENGAGED YOUNG PEOPLE.
174
ARTS AWARD DISCOVERY CERTIFICATES.
90
SCHOOL & COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS.
29
PRO ARTISTS EMPLOYED.
BEHIND THE SCENES.
Watch a short documentary explaining some of the processes and groups involved in the making of And The Have Escaped.
Along with the main installation we created with schools and community participants this short dance for camera piece.
OUR CREATIVES.
TECHNICAL PARTNER | GREYWORLD
greyworld.org
ANIMATIONS | YEAST CULTURE
yeastculture.org
PHOTOGRAPHY | SAVANNAH PHOTOGRAPHIC
savannahphotographic.com
STORYBOARD DRAWINGS BY BEN QURESHI
benqureshi.com
EVALUATOR | SARAH GREGSON
PROJECT MANAGER | HANNAH DIX
DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER | JOHN DARVELL
PRODUCER | TESSA HOWELL
DANCED & PERFORMED BY
DEBORAH ANN CAMP
EFFIE MCGUIRE WARD
HARRIET WAGHORN
FILMED & EDITED BY ROGERIO SILVA
COMPOSITION BY JOHN CHAMBERS
jccomposer.com
